dining corral file photo by Boyd Loving
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, the KNUDSEN and VAN GOOR for Village Council campaign put out a statement on Facebook on the controversial “pedestrian mall” idea for the central business district .
Let’s talk pedestrian mall, dining corrals, honoring an agreement, and keeping businesses in Ridgewood.
Mayor Knudsen and Chief Van Goor served on the Welcome to Ridgewood committee. Organized during the height of Covid19 to help keep Ridgewood restaurants open. Efforts included the use of dining corrals, pedestrian mall, grab and go, and music in the park, along with other covid19 safe events.
Retailers and services supported the pedestrian mall and dining corrals to help the restaurants stay in business. Their support came with an agreement the business district would be fully restored once the pandemic passed.
Businesses were hurt by the initiatives including some restaurants outside of the mall: retail businesses and services, both inside and outside of the mall, and tenants and building owners within the mall space.
Mayor Knudsen kept in regular contact with stakeholders, urging business owners not to close permanently. Honoring the agreement was essential to keeping businesses in Ridgewood and important to a thriving business district.
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This is starting to get good.
Susan has apparently finally seen the light. After massive opposition, including the controlling vote against keeping the sidewalk food availability with her cohorts, she has apparently decided she has to switch to the residents obvious preference to keep them open. Her last comment is to the effect that the park at Schedler is “being actively developed”. No mention of the fact that it has NOT been developed because she and her cohorts preferred to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on the useless and overly expensive reconstruction of the Schedler house. When I say “overly expensive, it was reconstructed with very expensive “fake original” materials–some of which were not even used at the time (copper gutters, fancy windows, etc.) Her new platform makes her sound like the perfect candidate. Please look into her many bad or actually harmful decisions of the past. Such as firing our volunteer daytime ambulance squad so she could hire another fireman–who may not be available to answer calls if he is responding to a fire call, making our response very much slower as another town has to be called to cover for us. This is only one of her many faulty decisions while she has been in office. Also, please note that 2 of the remaining 4 (one of those being Susan) have begged you to vote for the other two candidates and thus indirectly NOT for Susan. That alone should make you look further into her craftily written platform.
I guess you didn’t read the post
Sorry – Ms Winograd is unbalanced and Mr Weitz is a throwback to the Aronsohn regime. The choice may not be great but it’s clear.
By no means is Susan perfect. I am disappointed with her about a few things but she is much less dangerous to this town than someone like W & V are. My family vote will go for her and Van Goor. But I have a feeling this time around the extreme left represented by the 2 new candidates will grab RW by the throat. Hope I am wrong.
The Slumming of Ridgewood continues.
Thanks Rurik for your thoughts on the gutters i many candidates you are supporting. Unstable as used above is a perfect adjective . Don’t judge that marketing book by its cover. Friends with developers and landlords we all know how that story ends. Have you seen Montclair lately
The top brass need to worry about much more important things then out side dining. Worry about getting the leaves cleaned up before it snows.